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Turn Off, Tune In, Log Out Being (mercifully) untwittered, I had the attention span to read the Twitter article [June 15] in one go. No surprise of course that the U.S. spawned Twitter, being world leader in social dislocation, self-absorption, celebrity infatuation and ADD. What better way to ignore the person in front of you (wife, child, old friend) than to be Twittering Oprah on how to deal with her dog's ticks? John George Ronaldson McLean, Wellington...
...there's another relevant model as well: lots of women who make a detour aren't looking to have more time for Gymboree; they're doing it because they want to start their own business, make their own rules, be their own boss - and this seems more Sarah's tune. Palin's brand is maverick, and her mode is moxie. "I'm not a quitter," she said. "I'm a fighter." (See pictures of Sarah Palin...
While such statistics are promising, menu counts are no silver bullet. Martin Lindstrom, the noted consumer psychologist and author of Buyology: Truths and Lies About Why We Buy, fears that consumers will tune out the numbers long term. "Eventually, calorie counts will just be wallpaper," he says...
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...people say something about 'double D,' they will be talking of something entirely different!" But behind the scenes, Parton has quietly, without fanfare, been giving back big-time through her charitable activities. Her Imagination Library gives free books to children in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. - to the tune of some 20 million books a year. Parton has written her own children's book, I Am a Rainbow (Putnam), which will be part of that program as well. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs caught up with Parton at Dollywood, her theme park, in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. (See TIME...